Mankind suffers from two excesses: to exclude reason, and to live by nothing but reason.
BLAISE PASCALFaith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.
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Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.
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Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.
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We should seek the truth without hesitation; and, if we refuse it, we show that we value the esteem of men more than the search for truth.
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Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.
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People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.
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All our dignity lies in our thoughts.
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If I had more time I would write a shorter letter.
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Man’s greatness lies in his power of thought.
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Imagination decides everything.
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There is enough light for those who only desire to see, and enough obscurity for those who have a contrary disposition.
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Love knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. Love still stands when all else has fallen.
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If a man is not made for God, why is he happy only in God?
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When intuition and logic agree, you are always right.
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We are not satisfied with real life; we want to live some imaginary life in the eyes of other people and to seem different from what we actually are.
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Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.
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One-half of the ills of life come because men are unwilling to sit down quietly for thirty minutes to think through all the possible consequences of their acts.
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We never love a person, but only qualities.
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Everyone, without exception, is searching for happiness.
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Lord, help me to do great things as though they were little, since I do them with your power; And little things as though they were great, since I do them in your name!
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Wisdom leads us back to childhood.
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The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.
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Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought.
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If you want to be a real seeker of truth, you need to, at least once in your lifetime, doubt in, as much as it’s possible, in everything.
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Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.
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The entire ocean is affected by a single pebble.
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And is it not obvious that, just as it is a crime to disturb the peace when truth reigns, it is also a crime to remain at peace when the truth is being destroyed?
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